Lead Lighting Artist

Requirements

• Team Management: Guide day to day work of lighting team.Assign and review lighting tasks, ensuring quality and schedule alignment. Act as the go-to contact for lighting team progress and troubleshooting. Balancing hands-on work with oversight responsibilities
• Team mentorship: Foster a supportive, productive, and communicative team culture. Coaching and providing feedback and development opportunities
• Quality Control: Review renders to maintain consistency, mood, and technical soundness. Ensure final lighting renders are consistent, comp-ready, and creatively aligned
• Hero Work: Deliver or lookdev key shots to establish lighting benchmarks
• Cross-Department Liaison: Work with comp, FX, and layout to ensure proper Pipeline.
• Oversight: Support the move from SOPs to LOPs and align with rendering tools
• Problem Solving: Resolve render, scene, or data issues blocking final delivery. Identify and solve technical lighting challenges to keep shots moving
• Planning: Coordinate with production on task tracking and resource forecasting
• Feedback: Respond to notes from leads and supervisors quickly and effectively. Be open to feedback and work iteratively to reach final quality
• Communication: Keep the team updated on progress and flag blockers early
  

• Deep experience lighting in Houdini using Arnold (SOP-based and USD-aware)
• Strong understanding of light, mood, colour, and cinematic realism
• Skilled at troubleshooting and mentoring within a fast-paced production environment
• Comfortable coordinating across departments and working with production
• Familiarity with USD/LOPs workflows and transitioning practices
• Experience with Karma or multi-render workflows
• Tool spec or scripting experience to improve team efficiency
• 7+ years in VFX or a related field
• Strong leadership skills, ability to inspire, share a clear vision and get the best out of everyone
• Excellent communicator, sharing information clearly and actively listening
• Strong time management, ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and escalate delays in a timely manner
• Adaptable to change with the ability to stay focused and maintain a positive attitude
• Driven to make things better with flexibility to change course when needed
• Positive energy, focusing on results and having a positive impact on those around you
• Self awareness and an ability to resolve and diffuse problems treating others with kindness and respect
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work well with others